In 2017, you helped us send appoximately $1500 usd to HESC (Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center) and $1000 to OPC (Ol Pejeta Conservancy) toward the funding of their APU canines.

We appreciate all you’ve done!

2018 will be a year of transition for Fight for Rhinos.

We have gone through some personal changes in the last months and I will now be soley responsible for Fight for Rhinos. This means I will still be advocating for our rhinos, but will temporarily suspend active fundraising endeavors.

And donations received via PayPal from January 2018 on, will be forwarded to HESC, as I strongly believe in the progress and direction of their program.

I am extremely grateful and inspired to work with you all the last several years in having made such a difference for so many rhinos, and the people protecting them. Most especially, it has instilled in me hope for their future!

About the Artist: Doppsee is a ten-year old striking black rhino. Rather sweet-tempered (as far as black rhinos go), when she is not creating art, her interests include dining, mudbaths, and unabashedly seeking out attention from her caregivers.

Dops’ latest hobby involves her love interest, Phinneas. Her new neighbor just moved in from Texas, and they’ve taken quite the liking to one another. The next project for this talented lady? With any luck-motherhood!

How: Each piece will have a minimum start price, simply choose the piece that catches your eye, and place your bid. At the end of the final day (Sunday, Sept 4) the winning bids will be contacted. You will have 24 hrs to respond. If you do not, the second highest bid will be contacted.

*ALL proceeds will benefit our projects at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya and Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center in South Africa.

Today is an opportunity to give rangers the appreciation and respect they deserve. When laws are weak, technology is expensive, and the price on an animal’s head is high, the only thing literally standing between a poacher and rhino, is the ranger.

We salute you all! Thank you for your dedication, bravery and efforts. You truly are our heroes.

In 2013, after a trip to Samburu, Nakuru, Amboseli and Masaai Mara, the one disturbing theme was “There used to be rhinos here.” Aside from an occasional siting on the Mara, rhinos had vanished, wiped from what used to be their home.

In contrast Ol Pejeta was maintaining a safe haven for both white and black rhinos within the sanctuary.

Black rhino at Ol Pejeta.

But today, there is something stirring in the bush that wasn’t there on my trip-hope.

In 2015, with combined efforts of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) and Lewa Conservancy, several black rhinos were reintroduced to Samburu. They have been relocated to a 21,000 acre sanctuary in Sera Community Conservancy with hopes they will slowly reestablish a population in the area.

This is the first time in Kenya, a community is responsible for the protection and management of black rhino, as it is usually a goverment led initiative.

In February of 2017, the Sera conservancy will launch a black rhino tracking safari to further their investment in tourism.

Additionally, both Ol Pejeta Conservancy and Lewa Wildlife Conservancy have been successful in maintaining a healthy, breeding population of black rhinos. In fact, so much so, they have run into the situation of reaching maximum capacity.

The success of both sanctuaries stems from their surrounding areas; it is a symbiotic relationship when communities see the financial benefit from tourism, and ultimately the key to keeping the rhino alive.

Sudan is THE LAST male northern white rhino on our planet. One of his caregivers at Ol Pejeta Conservancy has some wise words from the majestic, soon to be extinct rhino in his care:

Sudan you are ok and healthy,though you spend many days alone,I wish you can tell the story more than i do; tell them how life was in southern Sudan, before that finger pulled the trigger and saw your brothers, sisters and cousins brought down,helplessly bleeding with their God given horns hacked..

..before humans reproduced and took the land meant for you and your colleagues,tell them what it feels to be last of your kind in the whole world! And tell them that you are the way you are because of them.

Right, let me help you, and I will be straight: their lust for sex , I mean to satisfy their craving for it, have used your horn as an aphrodisiac, as well as to prove their social status and make them beautiful; yes, their immature beliefs in the medicinal value of your horns.

Tell them that the most stupid man is the one who lives, eats sumptuous food, wears well at the expense of your life, yes….And the most ugliest woman and lady is one who catwalks with ornaments made of rhino horns at the expense of your own natural beauty. Its shame: from the greed of power to the greed of social status quo and boost of immorality.

You are you, just you alone in the world! The truth is that you deserve equal rights with all human beings. Anyway I will stop but I will remind the human race that there is no grief in life as great as denying the truth until it is too late.

The big question is where are you within the circle of conservation my friends- food for thought.🤔

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Why Rhinos?

Always an animal advocate, after visiting Emi, the Sumatran rhino at the Cincinnati Zoo, I was hooked. They're amazing animals, a piece of living history, deserving of a future. As I began to share their plight, I was shocked at how few people knew about the poaching crisis. I created FFR to raise awareness and aid in the conservation of these species. Please help us secure their future.